The Bowser Card is an item in Mario Party: Island Tour.
In Mario Party: Island Tour[]
There is only one Bowser Card, and it appears exclusively in Shy Guy's Shuffle City. At the start, after Yellow Toad gives cards to the characters and before the first minigame, Bowser shows up and gives the Bowser Card to a random character.
Whoever has the Bowser Card must try and get rid of it within three turns, otherwise they receive a Bowser Penalty, and its effects can include either going back a certain number of spaces, returning to last place, or some promised event that does not happen. A Bowser spotlight circles on the Touch Screen of whoever has the card.
The character with the Bowser Card can only get rid of it by passing it on to another character. In such an event, the character with the Bowser Card must hope the character in question draws the card randomly while trying to draw another. Another way to pass the Bowser Card is by triggering the Get the Bowser Card! event from the ? Space, in which the current holder of the Bowser Card passes it to the activating character in exchange for that character's lowest value card.
After every three turns, aside from the Bowser Penalty activating on whoever has the Bowser Card, another set of cards, including the Bowser Card, are provided again.
Whoever has the Bowser Card cannot participate in the end game, because Bowser prohibits them from doing so, and he even forces whoever has the Bowser Card to go back three spaces.